John Greene is one of Hong Kong’s 800,000 or so smokers who’ve been grappling with a citywide smoking ban that came into effect this year.
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The long-time smoker jokes the ban has overturned one of the traditions of the century-old Kowloon Cricket Club he belongs to.
“They really hit us on the […]

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s filming a Bollywood anti-smoking movie will have to cough up a fine if they are caught puffing up on the set, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Kumar Mangat, the producer of “No Smoking,” told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper that he has hired a cameraman to catch offenders in action.
“Many people try to smoke […]

More than 10,000 Malaysians die from smoking-related illnesses every year, said Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng.
He said that 30% of those above the age of 30 suffer from up to 40 kinds of illnesses which include heart problems and 57 types of cancer.
“Statistics show that every day about 50 teenagers below the age of […]

AS the second-hand swept past midnight last night, smoking - or not smoking - was the last thing on the minds of sports fans at coffee shops here.
The smoking ban at eating places had come into effect at the stroke of midnight. Still, many had cigarettes hanging from their lips as their eyes stayed rivetted […]

The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered the government to ban smoking in all public places.
Acting upon a public interest litigation filed by advocate Prakash Mani Sharma of Pro-Public, a division bench of justices Anup Raj Sharma and Rajendra Prasad Koirala issued the order on Tuesday.
The apex court also ordered the government to ban the […]